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2004-10-11 - faux o clock

Everyone appears to be sick this week.

"We were taught in high school that vaccines have saved millions of lives in America and Europe. One of the greatest heroes of modern medicine is Louis Pasteur, the creator of the "germ theory," the ideological foundation for vaccines. But the real history of vaccines, and the real story of Louis Pasteur, is something quite different.
In his early career, Pasteur did believe that germs were the cause of disease. But 15 years before his death he recanted this belief. He came to believe that it was not germs but the degradation of an organism's internal environment that causes disease. ('The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.')He came to believe that germs took advantage of degraded or susceptible "terrain."
Over a century of scientific research has validated Pasteur's terrain theory. Maintaining a healthy terrain, not eliminating germs, has proved to be the key to disease prevention. But Pasteur's germ theory retains a powerful hold on our collective imagination. "
-Jock Doubleday

The sun helps.

"Not only is the physical condition of an organism affected by light, but so is the mental condition. Behaviors of laboratory animals will change greatly as lighting conditions are changed. Researchers have long known it is necessary to remove a male rat from his cage in the laboratory before his pregnant mate gives birth, otherwise he will cannibalize the newborn rats. However, it has been found that, under full-spectrum lighting conditions, this does not occur. In a sunlit environment, or one approximating it artificially with full-spectrum bulbs, pap rat will actually nurture his offspring! " - Susan Stockton

Pap rat sounds funny. Susan Stockton has a way with words.

I don't like when people do cyber faces like these. Umm, you're a brat. :) Ok, I miss you ;( Too bad Jenny, you're coming with us :p
How about

I just had a very bad nose job :>(

I never really loved you (:D)-

Lost an eye in a fight (, : /)

B cups are back in style, thank you ~-(. I . )-~

Yes I heard the handlebar mustache was coming back in style as well. :{/)

Finally, I seem to have located the scource of the intense craving I've had for the last six months. I don't miss and could care less about pizza, dairy, pasta, candy, or anything really. The only thing cooked that I wanted was Quorn meatless chicken slaps. I found out today that there is an ingredient called mycoprotien that is in all of their products. It's like a mushroom, but not really. Anyway, I think that's what my body wants. I spoke to a healthy looking kid about the slaps at a little place I go to for the Quorn connection. He said it's the mycoprotien, and I told him I thought I was addicted to it, and he said it was very good for you. Unfortunately, 10% of the people that are ingesting it are getting violently ill from it. Here is one of the more positive accounts of the delicious treats.

"FDA Unconcerned About Vomiting Caused By Fungus-Based Faux Meat
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed a fake meat made from fungus onto the marketplace, even though the agency knows it makes some people seriously ill, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Quorn is the brand name for a line of foods made from �mycoprotein.� Quorn products take the form of faux chicken patties, nuggets, and cutlets, as well as imitation ground beef. It springs from a single-celled fungus grown in large fermentation vats by Marlow Foods, a division of the multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
�I trusted that the FDA would not allow unsafe or mislabeled foods on the market,� said 22-year-old student Laura Hubbard, who vomited five times and then passed out after eating a Quorn cutlet. �Now I feel like that trust has been broken.� Hubbard required emergency-room treatment for dehydration. CSPI received those reports via a web site, www.QuornComplaints.com.
In March, Professor David M. Geiser of the Fusarium Research Center at Pennsylvania State University told the FDA that calling Fusarium venenatum, the fungus that is the basis of Quorn foods, a mushroom is like �calling a rat a chicken because both are animals.� Quorn�s fungus is actually a mold, according to Geiser.
One study, filed by Marlow Foods as part of its notification to the FDA asserting that mycoprotein is generally regarded as safe (GRAS), found that as many as 10 percent of people reported vomiting, nausea, or stomach aches after eating Quorn up to eight different times, compared with 5 percent in a control group. Marlow Foods claims publicly that one in 130,000 consumers has an adverse reaction.
CSPI urging FDA to forbid deceptive terms like �mushroom in origin� on Quorn labels.
�Why �natural-food� stores, in particular, would sully their reputations by selling these vomitburgers is beyond me,� Jacobson said. "

After reading that, I made a big garden juice and guzzled it and then practically swam in it. I'm not scared of Quorn. Quorn is like a really good partner, who has offered you everything up front, and then one day you realize that he couldn't fully satisfy you because he simply didn't have the ingredients. Of course he doesn't tell you that.

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